Home and School Connection

When parents and teachers support each other the children benefit. There are many activities outside of school that support the OT's efforts to improve balance, focus, body awareness, integration of the nervous system, strength, fine and gross motor skills etc. Activities like bike riding, walks in nature, swimming, yoga classes, dancing, Taekwondo, climbing walls, trampolines etc… help children develop many of the skills we work on weekly in class.

Hand strength, balance and coordination

Ms. Christa & her 'TOYS' A day of balancing to the extreme!

Balance Extreme

Synchronized clapping movements, breathing and yoga

Rolling up the mat is hard work!

Whole group work with Miss Christa for 2 more weeks!

The 3rd & 4th graders had Miss Christa all to themselves while the 5th graders were away at Science Camp.

OT has started push in services on Fridays! Miss Christa joins our morning check in routine and then we get moving!

Our Listening Bodies After several lessons on listening, aiming our attention and following directions the children made a clay body listening. They then used their iPads to take a picture which was then labeled using an app called Skitch. Teaching children the importance of a quiet mindful body that helps them listen - even to the silence.

What is your brain doing while you listen? It is attending to the topic of course.